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The Santa Ana City Council voted last night to do nothing about homeless encampments

Nov 20, 2024 Art Pedroza

Last night the woke majority of the Santa Ana City Council voted not to support a number of proposed amendments to strengthen the City of Santa Ana's anti-camping laws. They…

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Santa Ana Mayor Amezcua is leading and the undocumented voting measure is losing in early election results

Nov 5, 2024 Art Pedroza

The early election results are out and it appears that Santa Ana Mayor Valerie Amezcua is easily trouncing her police-bashing opponent, Santa Ana City Councilman Ben Vazquez, by almost 9,000…

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Will Santa Ana’s anti-police City Council Members get the boot in the Nov. 5 election?

Oct 20, 2024 Art Pedroza

Santa Ana City Council Members have to run for re-election every four years. This year three of them are up for re-election, and as luck would have it they are…

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Who is Benjamin Vazquez, the man trying to beat Santa Ana’s first woman Mayor?

Sep 28, 2024 Art Pedroza

Santa Ana City Councilman Benjamin Vazquez is challenging Santa Ana's first woman Mayor, Valerie Amezcua, in this November's General Election, which is on Nov. 5. Vazquez, was first elected to…

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The City of Santa Ana is looking at financial doom because businesses don’t want to locate here

Feb 27, 2024 Art Pedroza

The City of Santa Ana is facing bankruptcy in five years, when $30 million in local sales taxes go offline – part of a decrease in Measure X, the sales tax…

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The Santa Ana City Council punted the lame Palestinian resolution by Hernandez and Vazquez

Dec 6, 2023 Art Pedroza

https://www.youtube.com/live/YaDW4glTssI?feature=shared Santa Ana City Council Members Johnathan Hernandez and Ben Vazquez wasted hours of everyone's time last night with their ridiculous resolution calling on a ceasefire in Israel's ongoing battle…

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The Santa Ana City Council will consider an anti-Semitic resolution next week

Dec 1, 2023 Art Pedroza

The anti-Semitic movement that began on the Santa Ana School Board has now crept into the Santa Ana City Council's next meeting agenda. Santa Ana anti-police City Council Members Johnathan…

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Several anti-police candidates are running for the Santa Ana City Council this November

Aug 7, 2022 Art Pedroza

The Santa Ana City Council candidates are starting to pull their nomination papers and we are beginning to get some clarity as to who will be running this November. So…

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A preview of this November’s Santa Ana Mayoral election

May 23, 2020 Art Pedroza

The recently concluded Santa Ana Recall Election was a grueling experience but it won't be long before we start getting bombarded by mail yet again from the candidates for the…

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Don’t let Santa Ana’s cop haters win in this year’s General Election

Oct 16, 2018 Art Pedroza

I was at an SAUSD school board forum last week and was shocked when some of the boorish radicals in the audience booed when they heard that I got a…

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The campaign to recall Mayor Pulido failed to collect enough nominating signatures

Mar 15, 2017 Art Pedroza

[caption id="attachment_62406" align="aligncenter" width="198"] David De Leon and Angie Amezcua[/caption] Do you remember Angie Amezcua? She was accidentally elected a little over four years ago in Santa Ana's Ward 3.…

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Several lame Santa Ana political candidates are blowing off almost half the voters…

Nov 7, 2016 Art Pedroza

You are probably as sick of this year's general election as I am. The last few weeks have given us all plenty to dislike about the top two presidential nominees…

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Oct 16, 2016 Art Pedroza

The absentee ballots were sent to Santa Ana voters this week. So now it is time to vote! This is an important local election as the City Council majority is…

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Campaign fundraiser for mayoral challenger Benjamin Vazquez set for Oct. 5

Sep 26, 2016 Art Pedroza

Perhaps the biggest knock on Santa Ana Mayoral challenger Benjamin Vazquez, besides his aggressively liberal politics, is the doubt that he can raise enough money to seriously contend against longtime…

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Mayoral challenger Vazquez picks up a pair of major Democratic Party endorsements

Sep 23, 2016 Art Pedroza

[caption id="attachment_62485" align="aligncenter" width="400"] Ana Urzua Alcaraz and Benjamin Vazquez[/caption] Santa Ana Mayoral candidate Benjamin Vazquez looked like a longshot when he first announced his campaign against longtime Santa Ana…

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The Santa Ana City Council voted last night to do nothing about homeless encampments

Santa Ana Mayor Amezcua is leading and the undocumented voting measure is losing in early election results

Will Santa Ana’s anti-police City Council Members get the boot in the Nov. 5 election?

Who is Benjamin Vazquez, the man trying to beat Santa Ana’s first woman Mayor?

The City of Santa Ana is looking at financial doom because businesses don’t want to locate here

The Santa Ana City Council punted the lame Palestinian resolution by Hernandez and Vazquez

The Santa Ana City Council will consider an anti-Semitic resolution next week

Several anti-police candidates are running for the Santa Ana City Council this November

A preview of this November’s Santa Ana Mayoral election

Don’t let Santa Ana’s cop haters win in this year’s General Election

The campaign to recall Mayor Pulido failed to collect enough nominating signatures

Several lame Santa Ana political candidates are blowing off almost half the voters…

Santa Ana 2016 General Election Voter Guide

Campaign fundraiser for mayoral challenger Benjamin Vazquez set for Oct. 5

Mayoral challenger Vazquez picks up a pair of major Democratic Party endorsements

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